Marty Stuart Premieres "Torpedo" Music Video, Announces US Tour

Today, GuitarWorld.com brings you the exclusive premiere of "Torpedo," a new music video by country music legend Marty Stuart and his band, the Fabulous Superlatives.

The song is from Stuart's new album, Way Out West, which will be released March 10 via Superlatone Records.

Stuart also has announced a slew of headlining tour dates, all of which you can check out below the video. The lengthy U.S. tour includes stops in Charleston, Orlando, Birmingham, New York City, Knoxville and St Louis, and tickets will go on sale 10 a.m. EST March 3. Head here for more information.

The "Torpedo" clip is a gear-lover's dream—a photo montage of the band's guitars and more, including Clarence White's 1954 Fender Telecaster, which Stuart has owned for several years. The song itself is a guitar-heavy instrumental track that captures the "way out west" vibe and theme of the album; it's a bit of early Sixties SoCal-inspired surf-style rock that owes more to the Truants, Thom Starr and the Galaxies or Zorba & the Greeks than to George Jones, Hank Locklin and Porter Wagoner.This is no surprise, since Way Out West was co-produced by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell, who recorded a well-regarded instrumental surf-rock album of his own—Surf-N-Burn (credited to the Blue Stingrays)—in 1997.

“Working with Marty and the Superlatives was a blast, and it was fast," Campbell says. "My role was easy—just set up the sound and let them play. Great guitars, great grooves, great vocals, they just have it all. This record is one of my favorite things I have ever been involved with.”

The album was conceived as a love letter to the American West.

"If you go and sit by yourself in the middle of the Mojave Desert at sundown and you're still the same person the next morning when the sun comes up, I'd be greatly surprised," Stuart says. "It is that spirit world of the West that enchants me."